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people lie more in e-mails than face-to-face

When getting to know new people, about 70% of people lie about things ranging from their feelings to their achievements, but the incidence of deception is higher over e-mail than in face-to-face meetings, say Mattitiyahu Zimbler and Robert S. Feldman of the University of Massachusetts. In a study of undergraduates’ 15-minute conversations with same-sex individuals, those using e-mail had 5 times more lies per word communicated than those speaking face-to-face. Lying appears to be more common when the communicator is psychologically and physically distant from the person receiving the message, the researchers say.